Trump Increasingly Talking Immigration As Edge On Economy Wavers

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

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At last month’s presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed violent migrant gangs were “taking over” Aurora, Colorado, amplifying and exaggerating a disputed rumor his supporters had spread across the internet in the days leading up to his nationally televised face-off with Kamala Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well tonight Donald Trump goes all in on immigration
0:06.7	distorting the truth in Aurora, Colorado with a new deportation message
0:11.3	that he thinks is going to help him win.
0:13.8	Plus, new reporting on just how much Elon Musk is spending
0:18.2	to help Donald Trump.
0:19.3	And the one eye raising move,
0:21.4	he is now considering in Pennsylvania. And it's the parody ad for
0:26.1	Kamala Harris that has officially gone viral with Republicans now trying to turn it
0:31.1	against her. Well the man behind the video is breaking his
0:34.4	silence and joining me tonight and Laura Coates Live. So when it comes to Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric, well we all remember this.
0:52.0	They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats.
0:57.0	That bassless rumor was about Springfield, Ohio. It was also false.
1:03.6	But that night, remember, there was also this.
1:08.5	They are taking over the towns, they're taking over buildings. That was about Aurora, Colorado. And Donald Trump claims it's been overrun by
1:18.1	Venezuelan gangs, which by the way city officials say is massively
1:22.4	overstated. So when Trump went to Aurora
1:25.7	today to hold a rally the city was hoping it would be an opportunity to set the
1:30.0	record straight, you know, clear the air. Aurora's Republican mayor even told me he wanted to show Trump what his city was really about.
1:38.0	To have the narrative that the entire city is overrun by
1:43.2	Venezuelan gangs or the entire state is just it is simply not true.
1:47.2	I want the president to come here. I want to show the president
1:49.9	this city and and, uh,
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